| Description | pedigrees and other family history matter by Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828) including a 1764 letter from James Lane recounting a search for the continental origins of the family. The papers mainly deal with the Bouverie or the Pleydell families but are not always directly connected e.g. the descent of Alleyne, the family of his stepmother, with an account of Colonel Reynold Alleyne, one of the first settlers on Barbados, and relating the events on the island in the 17th and early 18th centuries, and that of the May, Stert and Coppendale families of his daughter-in-law, Louisa nee May, the wife of Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (1780-1850); other families include Adye, Church, de L'Eau, Fortrye/de la Forterie, Foster/Forster (connected via Pleydell and Pratt), Gough (descended from Elizabeth des Bouverie, daughter of Edward des Bouverie 1588-1625), Hitch (via Clarke and Young), Maurois, Pleydell and Urry (Anne Urry was the wife of Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet (1656-1717), the Urry pedigree including Bellamy, Fraunkville/Frankville, Delamare, Dabridgecourt, Le Maire & de la Lynde. |